TheAgent posted:

btw top execs are going to pay themselves out over $1m in bonuses this xmas

happy holidays

Scruffpuff posted:

Instead of actually modelling flight physics (mass of ship, power of thrusters, direction of thrust and the resulting acceleration and velocity etc.) they're actually doing it in reverse. By default the ship is assumed to be in one piece and therefore has their "default" tweak values for noclipping around. If the ship takes "damage" to a certain thruster, then the ship will fly differently based on that damage state. Example:

State0 (undamaged):
- acceleration:34
- mass:78
- leanleft:0
- leanright:0

State1 (left thruster damaged):
- acceleration:17
- mass:76
- leanleft:10
- leanright:0

This is an oversimplification, but you get the gist of it. The goal is to have as many simple states as possible that make the ship fly differently based on all the combinations of thrusters/systems that can be damaged. There's actually nothing at all wrong with doing it this way from a technical perspective - as long as the game feels right. It's actually rather clever, because it needs basically 0 CPU power to do it this way, instead of complex physics calculations. It also allows them to tweak things quickly and easily on the "ship feel" front without loving around with the entire engine each time.

Of course the real issue isn't how they're doing it - it's that CIG has a pathological need to constantly tell backers that everything in the game is mimicking reality itself in the code - when the truth is that, like every other developer, they use cheats to achieve the desired result.

Decrepus posted:

Star Citizen: Every System is in Flux

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

The superfluous walkways in the cargo section annoy me. They serve no purpose other than to look cool and provide another way to walk around. Maybe they serve as an alternate FPS path? But if so it seems like just going outside the ship would be equally logical. More importantly they take up space that could be used for larger items or pieces of cargo. Maybe they make more sense with other modules that have two levels?

But yeah, it's hilariously broken. Are there any large ships that are actually polished and done?

SelenicMartian posted:

Is there a way to get China involved in this?

Saladin Rising posted:

Haha wow, it never really clicked for me that Star Citizen is like custom-made for griefing. There's nothing in place to keep griefers from constantly wrecking all those thousand-dollar ships, and that's exactly what griefers are going to do if Star Citizen is released in any sort of vaguely playable form.

trucutru posted:

The aliens that look like some animu bullshit (tevarin) are a feudal society that honors the art of war and follow strict and honorable code of the warrior where the most distinguished ones are known as warlords. They also do suicide stuff.


their ship is the prowler, you know, the final fantasy ship knockoff.

TheLightPurges posted:

Also if anyone wants to laugh at how broken the Cattepillar is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkmPnG4z4B0

The first 30 seconds kinda sums up the whole vid.

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

Remember back in March when Chris said that Craig Grounsell was gonna get docking up and running in short order, and that it was a technically easy thing to do?

https://youtu.be/ciCNkp20O7w?t=10m48s

still no docking. wha happen?????

Mirificus posted:

TheLastRoboKy posted:

I feel like that's their fall-back every time "THIS TIME DEREK WILL BE SILENCED" is met with the deafening roar of Derek Smart's twitter account. Every day they declare victory and every day no one wins anything.

Hopper posted:

Coincidentally, 2 is also why the spergs currently fuel this dumpster fire, because Roberts is making them believe the game will be EXACTLY what they want. Those who realize it won't be... feel grief got a refund.

Samizdata posted:

You better have a Hull E to store all your rapecrates in. Just saying...

Eldragon posted:

I wish Elite was 10% as fun as that video makes the game look.

Ironically Elite is the boring carebear hugbox trucking simulator that the SC spergs are demanding SC to be, but they refuse to play Elite.

AP posted:

You can get gifted items refunded as long as the value is less than the amount you spent on the account. The gifting limitations are all poo poo CIG made up. If you've $100 on your account in RSI meltable value items and have spent $150 you can get $100 back. If you have $100 on your account in RSI meltable value items and have spent $50 you should be able to get $50 back and have them leave the account open with the other $50 still on it or have $50 returned to whoever gifted you it.

There's no way CIG want to stand up in court and attempt to explain all this dodgy gifting poo poo.

Sabreseven posted:

I had to check, it's not actually a photoshop, it's on the site clear as day.

I wonder how they worked that figure out, it's in linear kilometres and not 'squared' or even 'cubed', yet how do they make such a claim when they know full well 99.9 of those 100 are full of empty space and nothing to find?

I'm leaning towards thinking "false advertising".

1 x sextillion km = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000km = no way they made an in game map 100x larger than that.

D_Smart posted:

Curiously, since the LY fiasco dropped, both him and MoMA seem to have disappeared stopped getting CIG checks.

Gravity_Storm posted:

Its a sad bunch of characters that are associated with this dumpster fire of a game. They deserve each other.

WTFO just went full retard.

Spakstik posted:

Can we back up for a second and talk about what a stupid loving name "Grim Hex" is?

D_Smart posted:

Ho Lee Cow!! Thargoids first contact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slbWLXIpCv8

All 3 videos in one

Pelican Dunderhead posted:

i call these characters

seated uncut and cut

quote:

Summary:

- The Guardians are carnivorous and once hunt in a pack;
- They are of humanoid shape, with front-arm sharpened to kill their prey and cut out the meat. They have a small mouth;
- Laws are extremely important and the legal system is very advanced;
- They could communicate over incredible distances at the speed of light;
- Their verbal language is a mixture of signs and tones, while written language relies on glyphs;
- They master genetic and biological manipulations;
- Their people were extinct because of biological wars;
- They love exploration;
- They battle with creatures they developed for modern combat, biological weapons, and pack tactics;
- No Guardian had an official role in the community. Everyone had to take turns participating in the cooperative effort;
- Their technologies were more advanced than ours, but we have a more varied arsenal;
- They were keen not to damage nature and were versed in the ecology and control of demography;
- The guardians’ projectile weapons utilised electro-magnetic propulsion. Kinetic energy was used in combat;
- Whole cities were protected by huge shields able to resist even bombardment from space. Their shields tech was far more advanced than ours;
- Artificial intelligence shaken their societies based on city-states communicating with each other through a monolithic network.

Sillybones posted:

Isn't Elite like that? You run out of fuel or something and your only options are suicide or someone brings you some mana.

Canine Blues Arooo posted:

That's really bizarre. What's the penalty for death in that game?

Galarox posted:

Done, imgur album here: http://imgur.com/a/UE3dc